Embarrassing: MMO-Champ Readers' Favorite BG is Alterac Valley

It's not even really PvP. Unlike, say, Arathi Basin or Twin Peaks, there's no skill involved in Alterac Valley. It's not about who uses their class abilities better. It's about who spams their AoE hardest. Personal skill is mostly irrelevant. And the objective of this favorite BG? Kill a PvE boss.

I think people who voted AV aren't really playing it, they just remember back in the days where it was so much fun.
Personally, I think WSG is still my favorite. It's so simple that the matches aren't fucked up by clueless randoms.
For people who do premades, I'm sure they like more complex battlegrounds where they can take advantage of being organized.

A - 39% voted it as favorite, which means for 61% it is NOT the favorite.

B - barely 4000 voted it as favorite, this site has almost 400 000 members. So..1% call it their favorite

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

... there are lots of different types of players, with different amounts of time to play, and different tastes for the content and difficulty and time commitment they want to give to any of those pieces of content. The person that plays for an hour or so a few times a week is playing the same game as the person that plays five hours every night.....

I will do no head-hanging as I would never vote for such garbage. I don't care if my faction wins it all day. Any BG where the best strategy is to avoid PvP is fundamentally flawed.

Then on top of that, it's a massive disruption to queues. Try queuing a lowbie character in the middle of the night. Once AV is internally selected as the BG to fill, say goodnight--never gonna happen.

They should turn it into some kind of raid scenario(that might be a neat idea now that I think about it...) or separate it out like WG/TB(along with IoC *Shudder*). Tada, everyone is happy.

I voted WSG because I took the poll at face value and voted for the BG I currently like the most, even though I always liked WSG. I did say in vote post that if we were talking about any BG at anytime then my vote would be BC AV.

It's not even really PvP. Unlike, say, Arathi Basin or Twin Peaks, there's no skill involved in Alterac Valley. It's not about who uses their class abilities better. It's about who spams their AoE hardest. Personal skill is mostly irrelevant. And the objective of this favorite BG? Kill a PvE boss.

It's not even really PvP. Unlike, say, Arathi Basin or Twin Peaks, there's no skill involved in Alterac Valley. It's not about who uses their class abilities better. It's about who spams their AoE hardest. Personal skill is mostly irrelevant. And the objective of this favorite BG? Kill a PvE boss.

This is an utter embarrassment.

We should all hang our heads in shame at the results of this poll.

No, clearly you are the minority here, or we would have another poll result. So in the end for the majority it is embarrassing what you like.

Even if it was only a PvE-zergfest, it would just show that mmo visitors aren't very huge fans of the more PvP-oriented BGs. Mmo is a place where you see a disproportionally high number of (heroic) raiders, after all, as we've witnessed in many polls. And those polls are about as representative as the current BG one is.

It's not hard to make av into a pvp battle.
Say you go field of strife for the fun of it, if you're not teaming up with 4 pvp firends, and be one of the first out of the door, so people can see you. Tend to make several others follow you. That way you disrupt their start, and kill enough to make the 2-3 odd guys in defense being able to kill those trying for towers, off.
Even if you die you will often have delayed their tower capping.
Now those that died will meet the rest of the horde on their way back, and there will usually not be enough down in the base to kill people off. Gives some great battles where you have to push either side back to their base, but not much honor for the work.

It was my favorite back when it was 3 day + battles - now it's my favorite for a different reason - at 1.5 million + exp for a win it's a VERY easy way to level alts since I have absolutely zero desire to go through MOP quests yet again. Since I don't do premades anymore - generally 10 man BG's are a complete waste of time, since if you don't premade now you generally won't be winning much (case - 37 Kotu's just to get ONE win for the stupid cloak quest)